For this week’s issue of TIME, photographer Elinor Carucci took these powerful, intimate portraits of David, an infant born at 28 weeks at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

Carucci spent the better part of two days with David and his parents in the hospital.  She tells TIME about the personal connection she developed with the child and parents, and talks about her approach to photography.

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